his friends don't he don't. live from moscow this is our to hear your headlines now more explosions. rocking syria at the u.n. voting to decide on extending its observer missions of a conflict new to offer solutions are on the table after russia and china vetoed a western backed motion that did not rule out intervention. meanwhile russian officials have denied media reports claiming they have information that president assad is prepared to step down also on the list of dispelled rumors as an offer of asylum to both assad and his wife. police and. tear gas and rubber bullets on the streets of space as the public rages against the latest

wave of austerity imposed on the country in return for a rescue by the e.u. . by now my colleague speaks to russia's ambassador to the u.n. an exclusive discussion here with. explaining what was behind the veto over the resolution on syria and why the conflict could spread well beyond its borders this is about. russia's decision to veto this latest resolution has caused. and widespread criticism of moscow's stance is russia supporting the assad regime. of course not about what needs to be done in order to settle the crisis unfortunately the strategy of our western colleagues to seems to be to try to whip up tensions in and around syria at every opportunity and this time they took the

occasion of the need to extend the mandate of the monitoring mission in syria and attached a number of unacceptable clauses to their draft resolution so we needed to talk together was china unacceptable draft to allow kofi annan more space to work on the document which was adopted the. foreign minister of a number of countries of the so-called action group which is that which calls for setting up a transitional national body and that requires of course dialogue between various parties so in this context to introduce a resolution which would only their in their pressure and almost inevitable sanctions on the syrian government did not look like a good idea to us at all and there were. blocked a decision which in our view was gone the counterproductive so moscow not supporting the assad regime but america britain and france say that russia has

failed the syrian people today how how do you react to that. well you know you know you know. there are quite good and bad. propaganda i think what they have been doing in criticizing russia and china and some sometimes quite stridently today it was the british and the french. who went out of their way unfortunately all sorts of false false holds on the foreign policies of russia and china they should focus more. on the need to. help unfortunately they haven't done anything at all in order to set them train a productive positive process in syria instead they have been working. with the so-called friends of syria in fact the. this is a group of countries who are enemies of the syrian government i wouldn't call them enemies of the syrian people but certainly those who want to topple the syrian government this is regarding the consequences which are extremely tragic. such

policy in the dalles because the government or president our side it's not simply one individual or a group of individuals they represent of course a certain segment of the of the syrian population a certain power structure which has existed there for decades so to break it would cause and is causing trying to break a considerable trouble and bloodshed to reform and through dialogue this would be much more reasonable a line of action and this is what russia has been advocated dialogue hasn't achieved anything so far isn't that now an overwhelming global sentence is something has to be done to stop the killing of innocent people and what about intervention on humanitarian grounds is that it acceptable to moscow moscow is very concerned about chapter seven i don't want to get into technical does it protect chapter seven leading to perhaps military intervention but what about some form of intervention to stop the killing. well in

a way the monitoring group which. is a way of of a sort of political intervention in trying to a practical intervention and trying to deter violence unfortunately it hasn't happened it hasn't been successful i mean you said the dialogue has not achieved anything the problem is that the dialogue has not started yet the opposition groups refuse to enter into dialogue where they sit with the syrian government which says it is prepared for the log they should try that all four of the syrian government to enter into dialogue this is a major makes a missing link a major impediment in the way of an activity you know humanitarian intervention unfortunately it only sounds humane but the fact of the matter is that any military intervention for whatever reason is inevitably going to cause more bloodshed bloodshed and you know we know that those greatest humanists in the world u.s.

and u.k. intervened in iraq for instance citing all sorts of noble protects in that particular case nonexistent weapons of mass destruction what of course there is a one hundred fifty fifty thousand civilian deaths alone to say nothing of you know millions of refugees displaced persons and the whole dislocation in the country so don't be duped by committee and human in communitarian rhetoric there is much more geopolitics in their policy in syria than humanism and unfortunately the practical consequences of the of their policy is that that the conflict and bloodshed is not abating you mention geopolitics and understand that you mention the fact that what's happening in syria is actually a name don't what's going to happen in iran eventually can you explain that that iran is the eventual goal i don't know why. i did refer to iran but in a slightly different context i wouldn't rule out that then they will move or move

on to go to iran but i. i was not referring to that i was in my remarks at the stakeout earlier today in the united nations i was referring to their clear interest and this is a major motivation of the policy and their effort to topple president assad in curbing iranian influence. in the middle east in that region and it's also a major motivation of the other middle eastern the fighters for democracy saudi arabi and qatar who are concerned about what they see iranian interests of course in bahrain as well they claim that she approaches there is a sort of iranian sponsored even though some observers including your colleagues journalists who have experienced on the ground believe that it happens to be genuine protest. against a system which is not entirely democratic to put it mildly so clear a geo political dimension is there in the policies of

a number of countries who are extremely aggressive these are the syria and it is nothing to do with the interests of the syrian people because the ceiling who need is to find yes can i ask you though what is the worry for moscow will these geo political implications which explains clearly why it is more you know we are not it will not in what way could moscow be affected will not water the boat. well we're not what are the geopolitical implications of sort of that particular saying even though we believe that the greater confrontation with iran is hurting. is unnecessary and of course we are directly involved in efforts to resolve peacefully the problem of the iranian nuclear program and there are growing tension between iran and the west and it is it is not it's not it's not helpful our concern is that the syrian people have to suffer the consequences of

this geopolitical geopolitical struggle and our concern is that the focus of everybody's policy must be the benefit of the syrian people and the only way they can put an end to this tragic conflict is to get to the negotiating table and the ground there is a document which which was a consensus document adopted by the group of action foreign ministers in geneva two and a half weeks ago which says that at the incisional national border needs to set up a bit to be set up and it cannot be said by sanctions it cannot be set up by more pressure on just one side of the syrian government which is claiming that it is ready for such their locus there's a need that it's representative for such a dialogue but so far the interest from the opposition is not there and we see extreme opposition groups are in the position groups resorting to more and more violence and even terrorist attacks like the one we saw yesterday in the masters this is not to say that the syrian government has not exhorter it has not resorted

to excessive violence of the times or made very serious mistakes and blunders over the months but the time to end that unless we wanted to continue for years is to enter into dialogue. russia has really stuck by its principles of intervention is it not there. in danger of being isolated bearing in mind the continual vetoing of the sanctions in the un security council and of course the supplying of military hardware to syria all the most of course says that this is not being used against civilians but this what's it do for russia's reputation and indeed its relations after this crisis is over. well we'll see we'll see i think doing the right of the right thing and not simply following somebody is a. catastrophic policy is something which makes makes me proud is

something which eventually will be borne out of the right course of action on the right policy. under these very difficult circumstances and. if i'm not mistaken the united states is sixty vetoes on the palestinian issue alone so why don't you. question my american colleagues about the impact of the image of the united states in the middle east of the continuous mito sometimes even between their own presidential and secretary of state public statements so you know veto is a part of the u.n. charter there is nothing wrong about casting it when you feel the need to do so can we talk about what happens next now no agreement in the u.n. security council but russia has said that they would like to see an extension of the u.n. observer mission to syria but at the moment is a visible impact so far what is the point in keeping the mission alive when so far it's failed. what do what would be the point of the other party was saying that at

least we have a more chance to get objective information if it's there or if the situation we have to improve there will be on the ground already so they will be able to participate more actively in in the political process and also of the in dealing with the humanitarian situation so pulling them all to is going to entail negative consequences and one to avoid that unfortunately now here on we seem to be entering another sort of little diplomatic battle now we're going to have a discussion about making it the technical role without loading it with political conditions and implications thank you very much indeed we will leave it there vitaly churkin we really appreciate you sure i'm russian ambassador to the u.n. thank you very much indeed for explaining the situation during this crisis now thank you.

resistance is not a politics but a culture. this couldn't rest. on its own. cultures of resistance among marching. me it is easy to. see. you know how sometimes you see

a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

more explosions. are on the table. moshe did not rule out intervention. meanwhile russian officials have denied media reports claiming they have information of president assad is prepared to step down. to describe. his more. public.

on the sports. news today. these are the images. today. here's how you with as if this is sports of a plenty you had this friday afternoon from some from moscow including all the. friday night lights newly promoted side more duels on lockable t.v. moscow for her to get this year's russian premier league season on the way in a couple of hours. hardwood high the usa basketball dreams

squalled prove a nightmare for team great britain in an lympics one ball game. helping the russian volunteer corps leave moscow for the london games which get on the way one week exactly today. let's get going with some live sport where the third major of the golfing season has reached its second day in early on the open on friday we have a man in form brunt snedeker is his name and he started his ronda last year earlier than the rest of the day one leading lights meaning he was clearly eased the trail in front not by four strokes from zach johnson he's just begun his day while the overnight leader adam scott is joined by scott tied for third are further shocked by but both men are just three holes in currently. football fever is set to once again hit russia with the start of the premier league season just hours away newly promoted side more dual vs old homs lokomotiv moscow the sides kicking

off the country's first ever european style campaign in surround sound before the season began in march and ended in november but now just like in spain for instance there will be a summer break surrounds sure to be electric today with margot via taking part in their nor girl top flight lauch. meanwhile in the group for legal thursday evening proceedings on g come pain off to winning start with one the home win over hungary inside f.c. home base. i deflected your civilized shots given the darkest downside of the advantage i think into next week secondly. let's stay with football where arsenal look extremely on willing to part ways with their won a world class star they're going to shooting down all of the offers thus far for striker robin van persie from home and abroad the dutch international currently courted by munch munch just their city and new vent is that all of them falling short of the asking price arsenal were asking for forty million dollars out the

least for the striker the team captain has one year left on his contract but said he would sign an extension to stay at the emirates meaning arsenal could lose millions if he stays for twelve months the twenty eight year old scored forty one goals in fifty three games for club and country last. but let's move to boxing where for telling klitschko is preparing for the defense of his w.b.c. world heavyweight title against manuel char in moscow in september chara syrian born german started his professional career in two thousand and five and since then has recorded twenty one wins a loss to his name on the spot the fact it's dr iron fist brother vladimir you push the rest of the heavyweight belts charge believes he's up against the best currently on the planet. we didn't teach them on them will be totally couture is the world champion. in the world is joined to them his brother vladimir but i'm not frightened only. i will work out a plan for the fight with my trainer and we will see what happens on the day of

this it will be brings us to the baseball diamond where a plethora of players are looking to increase their stock with the m.l. be treated deadline some eleven days away well it is far from a victorious return to chicago for mark burley who was unable to lead the miami marlins past his former clubs teammates on thursday the thirty three year old pitching maestro receiving a mixed reaction in the windy city after signing a four year fifty eight million dollars deal with miami back in. december alfonso soriano getting the party started for the home siders his eighteenth homer of the year clearly upping the thirty six henschel create value a fifth inning to forget for the marlins with johnson roughing it all by singling to the field for a four zero only the cubs no winning their fifth game for the last six. while the baltimore orioles have mark reynolds the time for pulling out and neil biting for three win over the minnesota twins press davis bringing visitors to the

two one so real home run in the second the twins would storm back to the three two by the inning when reynolds stole the show was to run single courtesy of the twenty eight year old making the final score for three visitors thus splitting the four game series between the team's. bust ball to the n.b.a. were jeremy lin has been unveiled as the houston rockets player the twenty three year old point guard agreeing a three year twenty five million dollars deal with the french ice after becoming a free agent following his ascent to stardom with the new york knicks it's been an unbelievable ride just a lot of. things that i didn't expect to happen in in terms of just the way last season when you know i still have to kind of remind myself that this is this is actually happening sometimes but it's a huge blessing from god and i just i can't believe how it all shaped up in for me

right now if we excited and thankful. now lin won't be lining i would team usa at the olympics this summer but they don't seem to be doing too badly without him the squad taking on great britain in a warm up match on thursday securing a comfortable forty point victory some of the game's biggest stars on show at the manchester evening news arena the u.s. showing dozen handling ability to create their first basket kevin durant's taking it along the baseline for a junk. yard kobe bryant here putting the visitors eleven six ahead noah before a little later in the first quarter the all day t.v. box with a touching distance with a lay up for fifteen twelve though as the much wore on the gold medal winners from beijing four years ago showed their quality a dunk from the bron james handing them a twenty nine point lead to one hundred seventy the finals. it was

just a really good night for basketball in great britain. standing i think great britain has a chance you know to do to do some damage in the olympics and men's basketball. i think that it's often they're well coached him and wallace a great player and what he's done for his country and his commitment to this program is really sensational meanwhile a group of russian volunteers are heading to london to help with the hopefully smooth running of the fast approaching games but also to gain experience for the winter olympics two years down the line as nicholai chills now reports. with the london olympics now just around the corner russia are sending a force of one hundred and four chosen ones to the heart of the english capital to lend a helping hand and gain valuable experience for the winter games in sochi twenty fourteen i want to get this experience and hope that it will be useful fought their

way into olympic games and such it so i expect it's going to be a great experience for me and it will be useful for all the arsenal team the farewell at the moscow airport was marked by an appearance of the leopard hair and white bear who are better known as the talismans of the sochi twenty fourteen paralympic olympic games while the mascots cheered on the volunteers before they departure also taking part in the sand of who's the president of the sochi twenty fourteen organizing committee dimitry children ashamed of who sees this as a great opportunity for the team they're not just ordinary. citizens. real professionals our stars the cream of the cream they were selected the bus or the three of us here and the previous games they select was handpicked from all over russia one of them is tatiana that i'm jane in

a seventy year old pensioner from st petersburg this summer she took a break from her retirement routine and went to the other end of europe for the opportunity of a lifetime she hears them and if he is like a fairy tale i'm nervous but it's the moment we've all been waiting for i came to leave that in a few hours will be in london and attending the olympics. during the winter games in sochi twenty five thousand volunteers will be lending a helping hand and cover over twenty areas of specific duties ranging from directing to their destinations to giving first aid to those that need it so she volunteers will make up one third of the entire games personnel and he's just some of them about to experience how it's done in. charles r.t. moscow.

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